Dialogical Research in Supervision: Practical Guidelines from Experienced Supervisors in Family Therapy, Child Protection, and Specialty Mental Health Services

This two‐year qualitative participatory research project examines practical guidelines for supervision. Sixteen experienced supervisors across professional settings of family therapy, child protection, and specialty mental health services in the geographical regions of Northern Norway and Northern S...

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Published inAustralian and New Zealand journal of family therapy Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 282 - 296
Main Author Flam, Anna Margrete
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Richmond Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2016
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects
Action research
Child welfare services
Children
clinical supervision
Cultural pluralism
Family therapy
family therapy supervision
Health care services
Health services
Mental health
Mental health services
participatory qualitative research
practical supervisory guidelines
Protection
Supervision
supervision training
Supervisors
Tolerance
Norway
Sweden
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Summary:This two‐year qualitative participatory research project examines practical guidelines for supervision. Sixteen experienced supervisors across professional settings of family therapy, child protection, and specialty mental health services in the geographical regions of Northern Norway and Northern Sweden outline four main practical guidelines in supervision based on their supervisory practices: (1) elaborating an agreed‐upon contract; (2) exploring potential formats; (3) exploring contents; (4) acknowledging responsibility for process and dilemmas. Participants summarised how they generated mutual growth in supervisory relationships, while being respectful of the first‐person perspective of supervisees. The study challenges pre‐dominating guidelines about deficit‐ or developmental stage‐oriented supervision. It illustrates reflecting processes and a polyphonic orientation in supervision by welcoming diversity, wondering, and tolerance for the not‐yet‐decided among involved persons in a mutual exploration and calibration of relevant knowledge. It outlines a dialogical research for sharing, exploring, and questioning knowledge as beneficial for whom, told by whom, and evaluated by whom.
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ArticleID:ANZF1158
ISSN:0814-723X
1467-8438
DOI:10.1002/anzf.1158